This is the big surprise in Silicon Valley today, Sam Altman, the face of the

Genetor of AI Boom and CEO of Open AI. He's out of the janitor of AI boom and CEO of open AI he's out of the company you probably

remember seeing headlines right before Thanksgiving about a bunch of drama at open AI.

That roller coaster ride at open AI

is over, at least we think it's over.

ousted CEO Sam Altman has been rehired,

and the board that pushed him out is gone.

I mean it was probably the most dramatic story in tech,

possibly of this century.

I mean really dramatic.

That's Adrian La France, the executive editor of the Atlantic,

and she's been following tech for decades.

So you would expect that she would find this Silicon Valley office

gossip dramatic.

But the surprising thing is, a lot of people did.

Which is probably because underneath that will they or won't they

rehire Sam Altman, there was a more fundamental debate going on.

On one side you have people arguing for a more cautious approach to development of artificial intelligence and on the other you have an argument or sort of a

worldview that says this technology is here it's happening it's changing the world

already like there's not only should we not

slow down, but it would be irresponsible to slow down. So this just dramatically

different worldview of, you know, almost polar opposites of if you slow down you're hurting humanity versus if you

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